Hideo Kojima Is Not Directing the Death Stranding Movie, but Is ‘Deeply Involved’

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Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima confirmed in a tweet that he will be ‘deeply involved' in its upcoming movie adaptation, though he won't be directing it. News about the film broke last year when Sony's PlayStation Productions unit went on a spree, announcing numerous adaptations based on its first-part video games. Kojima Productions and Hammerstone Studios (Barbarian) are attached to develop the Death Stranding movie, but no details on the cast and crew had been revealed. Kojima has now claimed that he will be involved with 'producing, supervising, plotting, look, design, and content' of the film, hinting that his name would still be all over it — something the gamemaker is notorious for doing.

Kojima has never shied away from expressing his love for movies, with even his Twitter bio saying “70% of my body is made of movies.” With the amount of lengthy, movie-like cutscenes he has included in the Metal Gear Solid games, fans expected the Death Stranding adaptation to be his foray into film direction, but I guess that'll have to wait. The report from last year alluded that while the film is set in the existing game universe, it will introduce ‘new elements and characters.' As for whether this means a complete retelling of the existing plot or a new one, only time will tell. Kojima delivered the aforementioned new information a little after the premiere of his documentary Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds, where he also made other surprising claims.

Just to be clear, I am deeply involved in producing, supervising, plotting, look, design and content of the film adaptation of DS, just not in charge of directing.

One of them was his desire to leave Earth and make a video game that one could play in space. While many